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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81938	Geographia universalis: the present state of the whole world giving an account of the several religions, customs, and riches of each people; the strength and government of each polity and state; the curious and most remarkable things in every region; with other particulars necessary to the understanding history and the interests of princes. Written originally by the Sieur Duval, Geographer in Ordinary to the French King; and made English, and enlarged by Ferrand Spence.	Duval, P. (Pierre), 1619-1682.; Spence, Ferrand.	1685 (1685)	Wing D2919A; ESTC R229216	199,644	399

the Gulph of Venice It pays eighteen thousand Sequins of annual Tribute to the Grand Seignior for liberty of Commerce in the Levant The City which seems to have succeeded to the ancient Epidaure is pretty well fortify'd and very populous It has the Title of an Archbishoprick its Inhabitants who addict themselves for the most part to trade are Roman Catholicks In the year 1667. it received a great loss by an Earthquake It s Principal Harbour is that of St. Croix which is three Leagues distant from it Its Ships are pretty numerous well known in the Seas of the Levant as its Caravans be in the Dominions of the Turks in Europe He who commands the Republick of Ragusa is called Doge or Rectour he is assisted with the Councel of a hundred Senators his Government lasts only a Month. The Governour of the Castle is changed every day wherein one of the Nobles enters to command in his turn Their Gentlemen must marry Gentlewomen if they mean their Children should be acknowledged to be of the Ragusian Nobility The Revenue of the Republick is five and twenty thousand Crowns The Country above the Town is not over fertile full of Rocks and Stones if it bring forth any thing it is by the means of the Forreign Earth which they cause to be brought thither which is done with such care and such success that the Coast makes a Beautiful Prospect of Vineyards Orange Trees Lemon Trees and Pomegranates The Neighbouring Islands which are of the dependance of Ragusa are also very pleasant The Turks have some sort of inclination for the Ragusians by reason they pay punctually their Tribute and that by their means they are provided with all the Commodities of Europe which they stand in need of They give them Priveledges which they seldom grant to other Christians Of the Brittish Islands THese Islands consist in two great and several small ones Great Brittain and Ireland are the two great the small are all in the Neighbourhood of Great Brittain the Hebrides Orcades Shetland which depends on the Crown of Denmark in the sea of Scotland Man Anglesey the Sorlingues in the Irish Sea Wight Guernsey Jersey in the Channel Formerly Great Brittain went under the Name of Albion by reason of its Rocks all along the Sea which seem white It now comprehends two Kingdoms that of England and that of Scotland the union whereof gave occasion to King James to stile himself King of Great Brittain and at the same time the design of stifling the partialities which were between the two Nations The English were not very well satisfyed with this change since thereby their Name became the less famous The Brittish Islands had to the number of Nineteen Kingdoms England had seven of them Wales three Scotland two Ireland five the Isle of Man made one the Isles near Scotland another All this now is under the Crown of England Several places and Islands in the East and West Indies are also subject to it whereof we have made mention in the Article of Europe Of England ENgland was so called by the English an ancient People who dwelt on the confines of Germany and of Denmark the Name of Saxony Trans-marine was given it by the Saxons Before it was called Lhoegria and then Scotland went under the Name of Albania and Wales that of Cambria During the decay of the Roman Empire the Saxons and English invaded Great Brittain with main force and near Bedford gained a signal Victory over the Insularies who were constrained to abandon their Countrey Several Brittons retired into Wales others passed into Brittany in France where they setled the British Tongues by the help of their Country Men whom the Romans had already lead thither to support their pretensions to the Empire King Arthur one of the last Brittish Kings who dyed in the year 542. is the same whom so many Fables be told of and to whom is attributed the institution of the Knights of the round Table The Victors that is to say the Saxons and the English raised a Wall towards the West of England to mark the Bounds of their Conquests and at the same time made a Law by which all the Brittons should have a hand cut off who were found with a Sword on this side the Wall In the year 450. and the following there were formed seven Kingdoms Kent Sussex Essex West-Sex East-Anglia Mercia North-Humbria A little after that Charlemagne was acknowledged Emperour of the West all these Monarchies were reduced into one by King Egbert who dyed in the year 837. The Successours of this Egbert having been troubled by the Danes the last of them declared his Heir William Duke of Normandy to whom the Conquest of England brought the Name of Conquerour Thus England has had Soveraigns of six several Nations of the Brittons Romans Saxons English Danes and Normans These last have established there the Principal Laws the King who now reigns is James the 2. England is a greater Kingdom more fertile and populous than is either Scotland or Ireland It is the most considerable of any State in the Ocean It produces Corn and Fruits in abundance the best Tin in the World is transported thence Wool Cloaths Hides and other Commodities both excellent and in great plenty neither is it wanting in excellent Liquors The English Horses Dogs and Cocks are in high esteem all over the World No Wolves have been seen there since the general hunting which destroyed them almost all by the means of permission Criminals had of redeeming their Lives with the Heads of those Animals Gunners and Dogs were for sometime kept upon Frontiers of Scotland to hinder the Wolves ' which were hunted out from returning into England The great respect that is paid to Ladys in this Realm has given occasion to the saying that England is the Paradise of Women the Purgatory of Servants and the Hell of Horses The English for the most part are well proportioned and of a generous Nature They have had so great an Antipathy to the Scots that Edward the 1. the same who was preferred before his Eldest Brother by reason of the Beauty of his Body recommended that after his Death they should boyl him until they parted his Flesh and his Bones that they should bury his Flesh and carry his Bones along to the War against the Scots The English are owned Soveraigns of the Ocean and have made those States and Potentates to repent who have dared to dispute their Right to that Title Their Countrey is compared to the Tortoise in the shell who has all his Defences collected The acquisition of some Places by the allyance with Portugal has obliged them to extraordinary expences The Spaniards have a Proverb with all War and Peace with England The general Religion of the English is the reformed the King of England is the Head of the Anglican Church where of the Principal Members are the Bishops who compose the House of Lords with the other Peers This

joyned that of Parana it rowls its Waters for above sixty Leagues without any mixture 't is not deep tho' towards its mouth it is sixty or eighty Leagues broad and ten for the most part of its Course where after having form'd several Islands and the greatest Cataract in the World it keeps its swiftness for above forty Leagues distance in the Sea It might contribute much towards the carrying on the Commerce from one Sea to the other but the Spaniards do not think fit to put this Adviso in practice for fear other Nations might thereby become acquainted with it who would make better advantage than they do of such Discoveries Canada THe Name of Canada is that which the Canadians gave their Countrey thro which passes the greatest River of Northern America which they call the River of Canada This Countrey is full of Woods and the Climate colder than that of France tho' both be in an equal distance from the Equinoctial Canada furnishes Us with Beavers Stock-fish Mouse-skins and Whale-oyl According to the late Relation you cannot go for half a League together along the great River without meeting with either another River or a Lake Wood costs nothing more than the trouble of cutting it All these Conveniencies would be considerable if there happen'd not from time to time horrible Tempests which they call Hurricanes In the Year 1663. an Earthquake lasted there for above six Months The Savages are distributed into several Nations under the Government of their Sagamos's who are the eldest of their Families They wear Vestments of Skins almost like to those which our Painters very generously bestow upon Hercules or John Baptist. They make use of Bows and Arrows the points whereof they garnish with Iron and Fish-bones and make War by Courses and Surprises They are almost most all alike in manners but are different in tongues some are wandring and Vagabonds others have Villages and setled Abodes that is to say Hamocks which consist in some Cottages They live almost all of them without any care of Futurity and are very fond of Tobacco And therefore they call their Festivals and their Feasts Tabagies They can bring but very few men into the Field for which reason the Europeans found it no difficult matter to settle themselves there tho' they brought along with them for that purpose but very inconsiderable Forces The French have Forts here for the security of Commerce and to put a stop to the Courses of the Savages who are their Enemies The Jesuits Capuchins and other Religions have their Convents Canada contains the following Countries New France New Denmark New Wales New Britain otherwise the Land of Labrador and Terra Coterialis Accadia New England and New York formerly called New Holland Besides these Countries there is that of Saguenay which receives its name from a River whose mouth is not above a quarter of a League broad but which enlarges it self when you go up it and is above two hundred fathoms deep in several places This Circumstance hath given occasion to some Adventurers to seek a passage there for the going to China thro' the Northern Ocean Quesbeck the Principal Colony of the Country Founded in 1608. is the Capital of all Canada the Residence of a Vice-Roy and Bishop The City is divided into High and Low with a Fortress upon the Rock which commands the great River that carries the flowing of the Sea above the City Tadousac the three Rivers and Montreal upon the same River are three very considerable Colonies of the French The two best Sea Ports are Miscou and the Port Royal of Accadia As concerning the people the Hurons and the Algonquins towards the beginning of the great River have ever been friends of the French the Iroquois are cruel and great Buccaniers that is to say they suck the flesh of their Enemies they fortifie their abodes with Palisadoes They have been sturdy Enemies to the French and have done them great damage by means of the fire Arms they had from the English and the Hollanders of their Neighbourhood Yet the French boast that they have prevailed over them and that tho' these Savages have been able to bring several Troops into the Field without disgarrisoning or emptying their Retreats which are inaccessible they have nevertheless been constrained to yield to the Arms of France Their Country is pretty fruitful seeing it produces Muscadine Grapes Lemmons vence and Melons even as good as those of Pro in France The principal Isle of New-Found-Land is one of the greatest in the World with a great number of Ports whereof that of Plaisance possessed by the French is the best Heretofore they burnt one part of the Forests of this Island to render it the more habitable But the Rosin and other Gums which ran into the Sea were the occasion of the Fishery being spoiled in the Neighbourhood for above seven years Almost the like thing happened in the Isle of St. Christophers when several Ships loaded with Tobacco perished there the strength and bitterness of that Herb poysoning the Fish France sends every year a great number of Ships to this Island which it calls for that reason Terra Neuviers The English have likewise fetled themselves here The Isle of Cape Breton has the Port of Chibou in its Eastern parts which Nature has formed with all possible advantages for the security of a Fleet. There is a Shoal and Ridge of Sand on the East of New-Found-Land notorious for the taking of Stockfish and its extent of two hundred and sixty Leagues which has given it the name of the Great Bank 'T is not a Rock as several do imagine they call it Bank by reason of the shallowness all along by its side in respect of the Depth which is very great in the other parts of that Sea The fishing there is of two sorts The one for Cod and the other for dry Stock-Fish The Seamen who Fish there have at the same time the pleasure of taking with the Line great Birds or Fowl which they call Fauquets and Happefoyes which they effect by baiting their Hooks with the Livers of Cods Virginia VIrginia bears this Name in honour of the most Illustrious and Renowned Elizabeth the Maiden-Queen of England First some French nested themselves in this Countrey but the English were too hard and powerful for them took absolute possession of it in the Year 1584 and have continued in their settlement there notwithstanding the loss of five or six Colonies They have a Governour an Admiral and several particular Officers This Establishment facilitates to them the communication of what they have in New England and Florida The Air of Virginia which is extreamly healthful produces several sorts of excellent Fruits It is somewhat cold and yet the Inhabitants go naked the Oyl and the Colours with which they rub themselves defending them against the injuries of the Weather From thence is Exported Tobacco and Silk which is drawn from an Herb wholly peculiar to